The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-03-06
CATHOLIC oHuRcH NOTES.
Nyhat is Going ON in Catholic Circles
Throug hout the State.

Very Rev. Bonltace Arug, formerly
Prior of the famous Benedictine Abbey at
Monte Casino, Italy. is on visit to Very
Rev. August With, Superior of the Bene-
dictines at Elizabeth, N. j. Father Krug
is celebrated man, eminent among his
brethren for his piety and great learning
He is about so years of age, and was for
many years resident of Baltimore.
The Forty Hours Devotion was held in
: ST. Michael's Church, Elizabeth, last week,
beeipping on Sunday at the High Mass
Asst was the first Sunday of Lent, also,
nearly the entire congregation embraced
the opportunity of approaching the sacra-
mtnts. St Michaels is German barlsh,
and Rev. Father Won Schilgen Is the rector
The only Catholic newspaper in the
United States, edited and published by
colored men. is the "Amerlcan Catholic
Tribune published at CT cinnati, Ohio,
bv Rrdd q Whitson. Daniel A. Rudd, is
editor and j. T. Whitson, NJ. D., is the
publisher. 1t has the approval of Cardinal
Gibbons and many of the archblshops and
bishops OF the United States.
Congressman William McAdoo will de-
liver lecture at Union Hill for the benefit
of st. Augustine's Church, Rev. A. NJ.
Brady rector, on the evening of St. Pat
ricks Day, March IT, His subject will be
"Ireland and Poland, and the ability and
popularity of the lecturer, as we'll as the
worthy object for which the lecture IS
given, will undoubtedly make the affair a
grand success.
new T. A. B. Society will be organized
this evening in st. Jose9hs Church, Mon
roe street, Hoboken. Rev. Father Corrl-
gan. President of the State I. A. b. Union.
will be the speaker of the evening, and Will
deliver one of his eloquent discourses on
the subject of temperance, which will, no
doubt add many new recruits to the ranks
ofsteetotalism Rev. d. Marzetti is the
rector of ST. Joseph's parish and he has an
able assistant in Rev. Francis Lehner.
Rev. Father Callaghan, rector of the
parish of the Holy Rosary, Elizabeth, N.
j., will begin the erection of his new
church about the middle OF this month.
1t will be frame building, and he expects
to have it finished in two months. At the
fair recently held in his parish, IN aid of
the new church. he realized 81, 900. For
new and small ! arish this is considered
very successful. Rev. rather Callaghan is
well and favorably known in Jersey City,
having spent some years as curate at St.
Mary's Church, and later as chaplain of St.
Frar els Hospital.
Rev. Father Boylan assistant at st.
Michaels Church, Jersey City, at the
Lenten services, on We lnesday evening
last delivered powerful discourse on the
evils of drunkenness He spoke for about
three-auarters of an hour, and denounced
the rum traffic and intemperance in gen
eral in the most scathing terms. His ear
nest manner and irresistible logic pro
duced a marked impression on the large
audience present. Rev. P. Corrigan, the
we'll kaown temperance advocate. will
have to look to his laurels, now that so
young, able, and vigorous a rival has en-
tered the temperance fieid. Father Boylan
received his training in the school of tenn
peranca at tbs hands of that veteran
worker in the cause. Rev. Father Hen
. rsssy, of St. Patrick's, under whom he
grew up.
Right Rev. Bishop OFarrell, the distin-
guished and eloquent Bishop of Trenton,
will deliver q lecture in st. Bernards
Church, Fourteenth street, New York, on
Sunday evening next. His subject will be
1.-The Church and Society,"" Those who
have heard him need net be told that it
will be treated in mastery manner. The
Right Rev. Bishop presided at the great
meeting of the Citizens League, held in
Taylor's Opera House, Trenton, on the
evening of March l, for the purpose of in
fiuencing the observance of the Sunday
liqnor laws. Clergymen of all denomina-
tons were on the platform, and the bishop
sat between a Presbyterian and Methodist
minister.
Rev. P. Corrigan, of Hoboken, delivered
a sermon in st. Augustine's Church, Union
Hill, on Wednesday evening last, on ssThe
Delay of Repentance. The church was
crowded on the occasion, as is enerally
the case whenever Father Corrigan is ar
nounced to speak. The Catholic popula-
ton of the parish is about eight hundred
Notwithstanding the fact that the congre-
CATION is small, and the parish a new one
having been established only last Spring,
Rev. Father Brady, the jealous rector, col
lected during the nine months of his pas
torate last year 50, 600. This is considered
an extraordinary amount under the cir
cumstances.
On next Sunday evening Rev. Father
Corr, rector of the Church of the Holy
Trinity, Hackensack, will lecture on stSaint
Patrick in the Church of Our Lady Of
Grace, Hoboken. The reverned gentleman
is very eloquent speaker. He was, for
for several years, a curate at st. Mary's,
Jersey City, where he was deservedly
popular. He has always taken great inter
est in the Irish National movement and
shown his love for the old land at every
opportunity. He has recently made many
improvements and repairs in the church at
Hackensack, such as renewing the ceiling,
frescoing the interior, etc. He will have
the church re-dedicated,o or blessed, shortly
after Easter. He is to lecture also in st.
Mary's Church, Jersey City, in few
weeks.
Rev. John Scully. S. j., be-
gan a course of sermons last Sun
dly evening at ST. Johns Church on the
Sacrament of Matrimony," which will be
continued every Sunday during the Lentsn
season. The last sermon of the series will
be on the "Celibacy of the Priesthood"
The sermon last Sunday evening was an
instructive and interesting one. occurring